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There doesn't seem to be a lot of help out there either none from the manufacturer and even youtube information is absolutely scant. Given the price point and the target audience, I'm quite blown away by this, especially as this product is attracting five star reviews. You'll need developer-level knowledge of how this data operates to stand a hope in hell of getting the lights to work. Instead what you'll end up doing is sifting through a meaningless list of data values, most of which will be utterly irrelevant to you as a non-developer. Or give me a list of things that can be configured.

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I was kind of expecting to be able to choose the simulator I'm using, choose the aircraft, and it would then automatically assign the light. But the lights are an entirely different matter. Configuring the buttons, switches and axes was fine as it could be done in the simulator. This is a perfect example of technology gone mad. Getting the lights to works on this device requires you to be a developer or at least have advanced development knowledge. So there's no holistic support for this product which is terrible.

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Worst bit is the drivers aren't even provided by Honeycomb but a 3rd party company.

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This experience is based on a Mac system although I have seen similar computer hacking videos to get this working in Windows. As far as I'm concerned this product is simply not fit for purpose and is broken and I may try and return it on that basis as I'm months out of the returns period. I'm very angry about having lashed out nearly £300 for something which doesn't actually do anything more than my £50 Saitek throttle does. How could a layman possibly know if these 'hacks' are legitimate?! I'm very uncomfortable just blindly following instructions especially when I could be using my hobby to put my livelihood at risk. I am now finding that in order to get anything other than the basic levers and buttons working, you have to become a computer programmer. Having previously given up on creating a hard wired cockpit using electronic boards and a level of programming I felt uncomfortable with, I was expecting this product would deliver a turnkey solution. Furthermore, the content providers are gifted for delivering the most confusing instructions imaginable, and skipping crucial steps the ones you watched the video for in the first place. Following their guidance, you basically have to write a computer program to get the thing working, which is totally unacceptable in this millennium. There are NO instructions on getting this working leaving the buyer to resort to YouTube 'experts'. I've given up trying to get this to work on a Mac. Its plastic not metal, but good quality plastics. There are cheaper units, but this has the quality.īuild Quality - 4.5/5. I have the Saitek/Logitech throttle unit and that is not even in the same ball park as this on throttle levers alone. If someone asked me to recommend a throttle unit for them, this would be the one. Value for money, yes its almost £300, but that is a a lot of throttle unit for the price and better than some others 'cough'saitek'cough.' In my opinion, maybe a radio stack would have been better than an annunciator, but I'm nit picking.

Easy enough to figure out where to put them. You get two types of throttle levers: twin piston and 4 engine Boeing style. It comprises of an autopilot, gear lever, flap switch, 7 assignable switches, annunciator panel, trim wheel and 6 throttle levers which can be assigned any of the throttle, prop, mixture. The unit itself is very well made and feels like it could take bashing. The various buttons and switches all have a positive feel to them and the throttle levers are very smooth in operation and have a rear detent switch built in. Once set up, park your keyboard, you will not need it, especially if you have the yoke. It is also a helpful jumping off point to assigning the buttons and customising it to your style of flying.

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It does come with a default profile that is basic and gets you going, and you have to download a small piece of software from Honeycomb's website to get the LED's working correctly.

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However, the learning curve on how to set it up is very steep, not helped by MSFS 2020's and X-Plane11's control mapping interfaces. Okay, lets get the elephant in the room out of the way, the price! Yes it is expensive, but worth every penny.

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